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In his first public appearance in six days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn’t break new ground on the Moreland Commission meddling controversy that has persisted over the past few weeks.

At a stop in Canandaigua, Ontario County, to discuss the North Shore development project, Cuomo was peppered by reporters with questions about the panel, but he stuck to the script and steered clear of anything that would fly in the face of a letter his administration received last week from U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara’s office.

“The U.S. Attorney in New York City is now looking into the operation of the commission, and I think that should be respected, and I don’t think public dialogue on the matter is helpful right now, and we’ll let him do his work,” he said.

Cuomo was pressed by reporters to go further with his Moreland comments, but he defaulted to saying that public dialogue wouldn’t be helpful at this time.

The governor said he hasn’t been asked to talk to federal investigators, “but I’ve told all my people, anything he needs to know, everybody should cooperate.”

Cuomo has hired an attorney to represent his office as Bharara digs into Moreland’s investigations and how Cuomo’s office may have tried to steer them. Asked why he would hire a lawyer, Cuomo said simply, “there’s a lot of going back and forth — and we needed one.”

The governor said that while the attorney is a valid government expense, he wanted to spare taxpayers from having to fund his legal representation. He is paying for the lawyer, Elkan Abramowitz, with money from his campaign committee.

“I don’t think public dialogue is helpful right now”.. Really? Are you afraid you might say something that would hurt you? You don’t have anything to hide right? I think you should be forth right and upfront on your involvement (because you were involved from hiring to dissolving) and tell Preet everything you’ve done. Open and transparent, right Mr. Cuomo?

Nobody cares. Really. It’s an August story… Andy being Andy. It’s not a dead girl or a live boy, the only standard that matters in Louisianna or New York… Besides, we’ve got a $6.2 BILLION surplus. You think voters are going to care about a little meddling? Get real, people.

Funny to see the screaming Hyena trying to keep his cool in public. Everyone turned their back on him years ago because they saw the real screaming demon Andy Cuomo and now they will see that a hyena never changes his spots.

I have made many comments and posts about his meddling… I think it is wise for Mr. Cuomo to follow Counsel’s advice…I will wait to hear what both the Attorney General and Preet have to say. Let’s us all hope the Attorney General works in conjunction with the U.S Attorney’s office…..

Maybe there’s more to this Karma – Kismet thing than I’d have thought. What goes around comes around perhaps, Huh Andy? Your so called career as an arrongant, vindictive, nasty little boy is coming back to haunt you.

Now that Andrew is on the defensive and the fear factor is dwindling, probably for the first time in his life, what creepy-crawlies from his past will start to emerge? August, 2014, could be a month to remember.

Andrew has not learned from his father’s defeat. People were sick and tired of his attitude and stayed home, leaving us with George P who with his merry band of hacks should have been investigated for their various activities yet nothing was done and the press sat on their laptops. What I find interesting is that down-state persons love the NYC “I am the boss” attitude until you are called on it then they act offended. Nothing will change in NYS until Albany rids itself of the “what’s in it for me attitude” and looks out for the public good.

He was basically ordered to shut his mouth by the US attorney, and even he knows at this point he can only do more damage by talking. His only hope is that this dies down, and is actively praying for a natural disaster to hit the state to make everyone forget so he can done his magic windbreaker and go among the little people to anoint them by his mere presence

The surplus is from fines companies paid to settle lawsuits. The money is not from anything politicians did. The fines were paid because going to court and loosing means you loose lucrative state contracts. You pay and they agree not to charge management and directors with a crime. These fines next year will be taken off as an expense on the companies taxes so tax collections will be lower next year.

What has to change is the use for elected public officials to use untraceable blackberries to conduct the business of the people. You want to run for office3. You want to be paid by the taxpayers, you want to have a pension paid for by thew taxpayers, you want to live in more lavish surroundings than most of the taxpayers themselves have, then every bit of state business should be a matter of record. Spitzer used blackberries, the president uses a blackberry, and our possible criminal governor who hides his archives and now conducts most of his state business on untraceable unstored blackberries. This should be highly illegal. If you want the power and the perks, then all government business should be open to public scrutiny. I can’t believe that this isn’t a bigger issue. The governor of the state of New York governs with no record of his actions other than what he tells us. This must end!!

Walter, spot on. Could the TU also be drinking the Andy juice? Sure seems like it. It’s really not difficult. You hire a couple interns to moderate the blogs in shifts. It could almost be realtime. The more comments, the more exposure for the newspaper which translates into MORE advertising revenue. This not brain surgery here.

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